Before Star Trek, Tim Russ played in the greatest parody of science fiction of all time

Tim Russ’s credit on the screen came in 1985 when he appeared in an episode of the Restart “The Twilight Zone”. The following year, he played in his first major film, the actuator “Crossroads”, opposite Ralph Macchio, followed by a small role in “Death Wish 4: The Crackdown”, a truly absurd actuator with a spectacular death scene. Russ then worked with Clint Eastwood on the film “Bird” and extended his television credits with roles on shows like “Amazing Stories”, “COP Rock”, “Alien Nation” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”.

His most prominent acting concert finally came in 1995 with the beginnings of “Star Trek: traveling”, in which he depicts the security officer Vulcan Tuvok. Tuvok, as / film noted it before, is the best vulcan in the history of the franchise. Unlike Spock, it has never been given to emotional bursts of humanity and does not have all this annoying internal conflict. Instead, he is an entirely formed ambitious figure which brings a wonderful balance to “travel”, in particular against the authoritarian captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).

Russ has been associated with “Star Trek” since then. He continues to appear during conventions and resumed his role as “traveling” in an episode in 2023 of “Star Trek: Picard”, having become deeply loved by fans. He also continues to act in non -“Star Trek” projects, including an episode of “NCIS” and the animated feature film “Batman: The Doom who came to Gotham” (where he expresses Lucius Fox). Of course, some attentive fans of comedy will recognize Russ of his appearance in cameo in a famous parody of science fiction (the one in which Russ offers an almost as memorable line of unique dialogue).

The usurpation of Mel Brooks in 1987 “Spaceball”, a sending of the “Star Wars” franchise and other science fiction properties, is full of silly visual gags and hilarious slapsticks that use his lizard brain. It has been rooted so deep in the consciousness of pop that, several decades after its release, an official suite of “spaceball” is now forward (although it is unknown to date Russ will be involved).

In “Spaceball”, the hero Lone Starr (Bill Pullman), his friend of dog Barf (John Candy), Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), and her droid dowry (expressed by Joan Rivers) escaped the empire holder of the screws and hid in the deserts of Planet Vega. As such, President Skroob (Brooks) orders his subordinates to comb the planet’s deserts to find them. The black clownesque helmet (Rick Moranis) and his co-conspirator colonel Sandurz (George Wyner) literally take Skroob and order their officers to drag giant literal combs through the sand. No, they find nothing. At one point, in a strange visual gag, the camera even goes to two space officers holding a gigantic Afro choice. Have they found something?

The space ball played by Russ, who sports an idiotic spherical helmet, looks up in response to Helmet’s investigation and declares angrily: “We did not find S ***!” A voice of black indignation in a bizarre science fiction context is one of the funniest lines of a film full of them. Russ did not play exactly a rich and interesting role here, but he has proven that he has great comic delivery.

Russ was also one of the many notable actors and up -up actors who made a little participate in “Spaceball”, because he was joined by Sal Viscuso of “Soap”, the actor of prolific character Stephen Tobolowsky, Robert Prescott of “Real Genius”, Rick Ducommun of “The Burbs”, and Rob Pulsen, who is the best known for his prolific vocal shooting ( Expressed Yakko and Pinky on the Tour de la Voix. “Spaceball” was a petri box for talents. It is a good thing that we have had the right to so many growing bacterial cultures.

(It was not the best metaphor.)